Desired Tribal
| Developer | Tribal Systems |
|---|---|
| Working state | Current |
| Latest release | 7.0.6b[1] / 4 August 2015 |
| License | BSD |
| Official website | http://zenar.io |
Tribal Systems is a UK-based web site design and development company.
Tribal Systems is the trading name for Tribal Limited (incorporated in England, previously called Tribiq). The company was founded in 1996.
The company's activities are web design and development, mostly for customers in the UK and continental Europe, and web-based application development.
Tribal Systems also develops Zenario (formerly Tribiq CMS), an open source content management system.
Zenario
Zenario is the company's content management product. It is a browser-based web site content management system, and a platform for custom websites and online applications.
It is available in an open source Community edition under the BSD Licenses. Other editions of Zenario are also available under a commercial license.
General website editing features
Zenario is a browser-based website content management system based on PHP and MySQL.
It allows site administrators to edit many aspects of a website. The content of individual pages can be edited with a WYSIWYG editor, and previewed before publishing for general visitors to see. New pages can be created and the navigational structure of the site can be changed.
The overall layout of a page is determined by a Layout, and is styling is determined by a Skin, which includes CSS and images and which controls the appearance of the page. Layouts contain Slots, and a Slot may contain a Plugin, which generates some output that visitors see. A Plugin may appear on all pages using a given Layout, or on an individual page.
When an administrator is logged in to Zenario, the website will show an Admin Toolbar above all web pages. The administrator can navigate the site as normal, but can use the features of the Admin Toolbar to edit a page's content, settings of the Layout of that page, and the menu navigation.
Zenario has multi-language capabilities. It is designed to handle content in any character set, and uses UTF-8 format for data storage so that characters in all languages can be rendered faithfully. Various tools are available to assist in the management of multiple languages, such as the "translation chain" system which creates relationships between pages which have the same meaning but are in different languages.
The administrative back-end of Zenario is called Organizer. In Organizer, and administrator can manage the content of web pages; change the navigation hierarchy; edit Layouts; create forms; create Plugins; managing languages and their phrases; create Users and Contacts; and other administrative tasks.
Multi-site management
Zenario can be operated in a multi-site environment, with a single installation of the software being used to run several sites. So-called Multi-site Administrators can have a single admin login across all federated sites, while Local Administrators can edit only their designated site. These two kinds of administrator account often correlate with the roles of web design agency, and client website editor, respectively.
Datasets
Zenario has a number of data areas that can be used for complex websites including: Users; Countries; Locations; Documents. Custom data areas can be created. All of these are based on Zenario's extensible Datasets feature.
A data area based on Datasets is customisable. That is to say, the fields defined for a given data record can be changed and added to. (For example, the Users data area may start with just email and name, but many additional custom fields many be added.)
Fields may be plain text, checkboxes, or may contain radio-button or select-list lookups. Rules can be defined (such as whether it is mandatory) and one field can be set to only appear when some other checkbox field is "on".
Applications based on Zenario
Zenario can be used on online web applications, and sites with custom functionality. It has a modular software architecture, and modules can be written in PHP and JavaScript.
Such modules add features in various parts of a site: they can add administrator controls in Organizer and on the Admin Toolbar; and they can create Plugins which appear on front-end web pages for visitors to view and interact with.
There is a fully documented API, with the intention that third-party developers can create new modules.
System requirements
The product is designed to run on any web server with PHP 5 and MySQL 5.
A Zenario site is compatible from Internet Explorer 8 and onwards, including Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It supports responsive sites.
When administering a site, it is designed to work on Internet Explorer versions 10 and later, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
See also
External links
References
- ↑ "TribalSystems/Zenario". GitHub. Retrieved 13 September 2015.